What is the most difficult thing you experienced living in your country?

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I started this topic because since i was young i have experienced a lot of things that are funny and yet quite difficult experience. But looking back at those times i can't believe those times were quite difficult compared to the present life we have now. I want to start with owning your own landline.in the philippines in the late 80's till the early 90's, it is hard to apply for your own landline phone. there was only one Telephone company back then. And this lone telephone company is having difficulty supplying the telephone demand of the whole country. We were only able to get a phone in the 80's because my uncle left for the US and he left the telephone line and telephone rights to my mom. Anyways, that is not that end of the story. Having a landline of your own. it does not mean you have sole ownership of it. Even if you have your own unique telephone number. someone else who have different number shares the same line. Which means, if some one called us on our number, some one on the other end can hear our conversation because we share the same line but have different telephone numbers though. It is like we have to give way to other party line if they want to use their phone. and when they are done using the phone, only then we can our phone. We had no idea who was our party line back then. but it was only someone near the neighborhood or someone few blocks away from our place. But you can have your exclusive line for a more high price. But we were paying with a partyline to save from high fees in monthly telephone bills. This is the worst thing with having a party line. You are not allowed to talk too much or too long as you must consider the need of your party line to use the phone. And when i forgot i had a party line, and keep on using the phone, i would be shouted at on the phone by the other end. I had some fight with my party line before on the phone though only. And there was this few months of daily brownouts. it was like every night there was no electricity on the main capital of the country. Imagine living in the capital city of the whole country, and even the other parts of the country was suffering the same thing. I had to endure almost endless nights without electricity. I felt like i was trapped in a place where i have nothing else to do with my life. I don't want to go back to that time actually. It was really miserable.